MACKELLAR (MODERN) ANCIENT and the tartan now worn

and the tartan now worn by the Lamonts is like that known as Campbell of Argyll

at Dunvegan

It is illustrated by Smibert and the Smith brothers (both works published in 1850)

Stewart (1893) pointed out that the use of so much blue

published in 1831

MACKELLAR (MODERN) ANCIENT and the tartan now wornAlison Stewart of the Scottish Tartans Information Centre [Scottish Tartans Society] in July 1964 notes that this sett was first found in the lists of Johnston & Ross about 1930, and that the white and yellow lines were incorporated to mark the fact that the clan was a sept of Clan Campbell. An un named sample is preserved in the Scottish Tartans Society MacGregor Hastie Collection. DC Stewart suggested that this might have been the version worn by